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Random music news for Wednesday, May 5, 2021

If you have any anti-vaxxers in your life, read this, commit it to memory, and use it against their stupid

Yes, the iPhone gets most of the hype but Android rules the planet. This is easy to explain. While iOS

On this day in 1994, WXYC, a student radio station at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, became the

If you have an Android phone running the latest version, here’s a trick that should work on many phones. If

It’s still summer. Tomorrow, though… Here’s some music news for September 21. This weekend’s Global Citizen Festival in New York

You’re reading this because on this day in 1991, a new thing called The World Wide Web was opened to

Here’s the best part about potential North Korean missile attacks on the US: They’d have to fly over Canadian territory

It was on this day that The Pill was approved for use in the US. That didn’t change society much,

Unless my calculations are off, the last time Good Friday fell on April 14 was 1933. And now in music

There was another huge dump of documents–8,761, to be exact–by Wikileaks today under the name “Vault,” all purported to be

On this day in 1970, NASA announced that after a few more flights, there would be no more trips to

Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
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The Custodian of Toronto Sports – Richard Peddie in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 033 May 27, 2021
Over a 20+ year span, as the Toronto pro sports scene evolved from older venues and stands filled with blue and white (Leafs, Blue Jays, Argonauts) to a more intense red (Raptors, TFC), and grand coliseums that define the city’s skyline, there is one sports executive in particular who ownership looked to. We’re of course […]
Mark Silver